Nicola Sturgeon has said not to expect large scale outdoor events to take place this summer.

The First Minister said that it is likely to be a longer wait.

She said: "If I'm asked will large scale events take place, the honest answer is no. I hope we will have restored a level of normality but we need to be realistic and pragmatic."

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She said it was likely we would have to wait longer than this summer.

The organisers of Glastonbury have cancelled the festival again this year but Geoff Ellis, the boss of the Trnsmt festival in Glasgow, had said he was hopeful it go co ahead as planned. Hampden is also due to host Euro 2021 football matches in June.

Ms Sturgeon said she hoped a return to normality that allows event to take place would be as quick as possible once the vaccination programme was rolled out but added: "But will it be this summer, I can't say with any certainty."

Another 71 deaths have been registered of someone who tested positive for coronavirus.

The latest update given by Nicola Sturgeon showed there had been another 1480 positive cases in Scotland and 427 were in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.

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Ms Sturgeon said the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 increased by 49 to 2013 and there were 161 people in intensive care units with Covid, the same number as the day before.

She revealed there had been a total of 358,454 people given the first dose of the vaccine. The number meant that another 23,583 people have been vaccinated in the last 24 hours.